Want more revenue, profits, and freedom? Start with a year end assessment

What entrepreneur doesn’t want more of everything in the upcoming year? Regardless of the kind of year your business experienced, the end of the year signals an opportunity to reboot. It’s the time to clear the cache, fix the problems, and plan for smart business growth in the year ahead.

Regardless of industry, size, or location, entrepreneurs have a robust “want” list for the New Year. These are just a few items on the list:

greater results with less effort

more and better clients

less stress

tools for running the business more easily

growing the business without losing themselves or their families in the process

One of the greatest challenges with running a small business is to slow down and step back from your business in order to objectively evaluate what’s really going on. Sadly, most entrepreneurs wait until January to begin the assessment and planning process. Woefully, they will have fallen behind. Critical momentum will be lost and the entire year will be spent playing catch up.

Even if you did have the time, would you know what adjustments you would want to make to move your business forward? An end-of-year business assessment is the ticket to help identify the business growth opportunities in your business.

A birds eye view

An end-of-year business assessment provides the fair and impartial vantage point needed when making sound, strategic decisions about the direction of your business.

More importantly, a year end business assessment:

creates clarity

unearths what makes your business struggle and what makes it succeed

allows you to base your goals and plans on sound data rather than wishful thinking

identifies the business areas upon which to focus and strengthen

provides a foundation for smart business decisions

promotes strategic use of your time in the year ahead

In fact, there’s much more to a year-end business assessment than meets the eye. Although some entrepreneurs assume the assessment points out what’s wrong with their business, we prefer you use the business assessment as a tool to identify opportunities to grow your business rather than as a weapon against yourself or your business.

You’ve got the power

An end-of-year business assessment ensures your business has what it needs to deliver on your goals in the year ahead. It helps to expand and grow your business in a way that is smart and strategic. And, most importantly, the real power of the year-end business assessment is the process itself.

It’s the time when you put your business on pause, step back from the day-to-day grind of running your business, to objectively evaluate what your business needs to make sure it’s on the right track and headed in the right direction in the year ahead.

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TDS Telecom. is the 7th largest telecom provider in the U.S., and our parent company is Telephone and Data Systems Inc. Of course, we have a few cool sister companies too, like U.S. Cellular and OneNeck® IT Solutions. Bottom-line: At TDS it’s our job to connect people at home and at work. We connect people nationwide, in rural communities and metro areas alike. We connect people running big businesses, start-ups, and even at- home teleworkers with Internet, phone, data, and TV services.